When the phone rings at this hour, things are not good..this was the case again this past early Saturday morning. Kate had coded again. She did not lose her heart rate this time, it was low, but still there. She went into respiratory arrest and required 3 minutes of compressions. She came back though and when I arrived her vitals looked similar to when I had left earlier that day. They decided to start her on more sedatives and keep her paralyzed to give her body a rest.
Around 3am, she started having some arrythmias and episodes of dropping her heart rate and oxygen saturations. This continued on and off on Saturday. They decided to change out her breathing tube and found that it had an obstruction, so she was not get all possible air flow. They suspect that was the major cause of her code.
Sunday was a better day for Kate...arrythmias decreased and no major heart rate drops. They did a head ultrasound and thought they saw something suspect, so that had us concerned. She seemed like herself and was moving all extremities, but if something was going on with her head, that would keep her from surgery.
Monday was a normal day for Kate...she had no arrythmias, no heart rate issues, no oxygen desaturations and her head CT came back with good results..bleed was getting better, not worse! So surgery is still on for next Tuesday as long as Miss Kate cooperates this week and stops scaring mom and dad!
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| About 36 hours after her code |
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| Sweet dreams for baby Kate |
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